Sigh, the original purpose of RexxUtil was to hold functions that were system specific and not necessarily portable. That's why these have a Sys* prefix. If functions are considered to be portable functions, then these should be implemented as part of a language defined class or function and not have a Sys* prefix.
Rick On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Mark Miesfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:11 AM, David Ashley > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just added the nixclib external function library to the ooRexx >> incubator. These are external functions that access some very useful >> *nix APIs. Please take a look and let me know what you think. I would be >> happy to add any functions you think should be included. > > David, > > That sounds good and I'm all for it, in general. > > I do have one misgiving, objection. I would really like to see the > functions in RexxUtil restricted to functions that are available on > all platforms. > > Some day I intend / would like to work on making the functions that > are Windows only in RexxUtil available on Linux / Unix platforms. I > really wish that functions like the WinPrinter stuff, that can't be > cross platform, had been put into the WinSystem function library, but > it is too late for that. > > I would really prefer to not add any new functions to RexxUtil unless > they are cross platform. Is there the possibility that the functions > you are working on that are Unix only be put in a package similar to > WinSystem and added to the distribution? > > -- > Mark Miesfeld > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Return on Information: > Google Enterprise Search pays you back > Get the facts. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
